1. The French Revolution
Phase1: "Liberal"

2. The Setup 3 Estates: First – Church Second – Nobility
Third – everybody else
A) Bourgeoisie educated and wealthy. Followers of the enlightenment
B) Sans Culottes poor artisans , traders. Poor.
C) Peasants subsistence farmers

3. Marie Antoinette & Louis XVI
The French Monarchy:
Marie Antoinette & Louis XVI

4. Marie Antoinette and the Royal Children

5. Marie Antoinette’s “Peasant Cottage”

6. Marie Antoinette’s “Peasant Cottage”

7. Tensions Between and Among the Estates
First Estate – Cardinals, bishops were members of aristocracy. Parish priests were third estate.
Second estate – Nobles of the sword V Nobles of the Robe
Third Estate – taxation issues, bourgeoisie aware of enlightenment ideas, no influence despite wealth

8. The Voting Pattern: Voting by Estates
Clergy
1st Estate 1
Aristocracy
2nd Estate 1 1
Commoners
3rd Estate

9. Financial Problems in France, 1789
Urban Commoner’s Budget:
Food %
Rent %
Tithe %
Taxes %
Clothing 20%
TOTAL 170%
King’s Budget:
Interest %
Army %
Versailles 25%
Coronation 10%
Loans %
Admin %
TOTAL %

10. Where is the tax money?
The first and second estates paid no taxes, but were responsible for their collection

11. The French Urban Poor

12. Convening the Estates General May, 1789
Last time it was called into session was 1614!

13. The Number of Representatives in the Estates General: Vote by Head!
Clergy
1st Estate
300
Aristocracy
2nd Estate
300
648
Commoners
3rd Estate

14. “The Third Estate Awakens”

15. “The Tennis Court Oath” by Jacques Louis David
June 20, 1789

16. Storming the Bastille, July 14, 1789

17. The Great Fear: Peasant Revolt
July 20, 1789

18. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
August 26, 1789

19. March of the Women, October 5-6, 1789
We want the baker, the baker’s wife and the baker’s boy!

20. The WHITE of the Bourbons + the RED & BLUE of Paris.
The Tricolor (1789)
The WHITE of the Bourbons + the RED & BLUE of Paris.
Citizen!

21. The Tricolor is the Fashion!

22. The “Liberty Cap”: Bonne Rouge

23. Planting the Tree of Liberty
1790

24. The Confiscation of Church Lands
1790

25. “Must” Reads: Important Books & Pamphlets of the French Revolution